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Open investigation: Despite trials, tribulations, there’s still no justice over Kew killing

As the final episode of The Confession podcast goes to air, no one can say with certainty who killed Eliah Abdelmessih, Katia Pyliotis remains in legal limbo, and Victoria Police is yet to hold anyone to account for its botched investigation.

  • Richard Baker

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Katia Pyliotis and Eliah Abdelmessih, the man police accused her of killing.

Flaw and order: Judge suspects homicide detective lied to court in Pyliotis case

As the case against accused killer Katia Pyliotis crumbled, the detectives who investigated the murder of Eliah Abdelmessih faced searching courtroom questions about the quality of their investigation.

  • Richard Baker
Police officers Warren Ryan, Tim Argall and Wayne Newman, by now a superintendent, all gave evidence at Katia Pyliotis’ trials.

Bombshell backfires: A long-lost diary is found and the fifth murder trial of Katia Pyliotis is aborted

Detective Warren Ryan told a jury his missing diary would exonerate alternate murder suspect Susan Reddie. But then someone found it, and the case against accused killer Katia Pyliotis unravelled.

  • Richard Baker
Detective Warren Ryan (left) interviewed Susan Reddie (centre) in 2005 after the death of Eliah Abdelmessih, but 11 years later Katia Pyliotis (right) was charged with the murder.

Fatal recall: How confession confusion put an accused killer in a quandary

When another woman’s murder confession was reneged, Katia Pyliotis faced the grim realisation that she had little hope of convincing a jury she wasn’t the person who bashed Eliah Abdelmessih to death. In episode four of The Confession, she considers owning up to a killing she did not commit.

  • Richard Baker
Susan Reddie was the first suspect police interviewed over the brutal murder of Eliah Abdelmessih, who was beaten to death in his home with a statue of the Virgin Mary and a tine of mangoes.

The original suspect: ‘Crazy Sue’ from Kew confesses to murder

Days after finding Eliah Abdelmessih’s bloody corpse, detectives knocked on Susan Reddie’s door. Her carer later told them she confessed to the killing. Episode three of The Confession ponders why they never called her in for another interview.

  • Richard Baker
Eliah Abdelmessih was a frequent diner at McDonald’s in Kew before his bloody murder in 2005. 

A penchant for porn and McDonald’s: The final, lonely days of Eliah Abdelmessih

The police brief explains how the Kew man lived, but the unknown female DNA found at the murder scene raised many questions about how he died. Episode two of The Confession charts the final days of Eliah Abdelmessih.

  • Richard Baker
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Katia Pyliotis has spoken to The Confession podcast about her experience in being accused by police of murdering Elia Abdelmessih with a statue of the Virgin Mary.

First she walks, now she talks: Katia Pyliotis on facing four trials for the same murder

For 11 years, the brutal murder of Eliah Abdelmessih was a mystery. Then, Katia Pyliotis was charged. Police said she did the deed with a statue of the Virgin Mary and a tin of fruit, but, eventually, their case unravelled.

  • Richard Baker

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